skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’ve exactly captured the two disparate views we see on HN:

1. LLMs have little value, are totally unreliable, will never amount to much because they don’t learn and grow and mature like people do., so they cannot replace a person like me who is well advanced in a career.

2. LLMs are incredible useful and will change the world because they excel at entry level work and can replace swaths of relatively undifferentiated information workers. LLM flaws are not that different from those workers’ flaws.

I’m in camp 2, but I appreciate and agree with the articulation of why they will not replace every information worker.
No, they're downvoting you for posting an AI answer.
Prob made $10-20mn from OpenAI and has f u money.
people who do have a price, tend to cluster around situations where that can come into play; people who do not have a price, tend to cluster around situations where that does not come into play (?)
Nintendo's problem is that this was fairly believable because it lines up pretty closely with their own past behavior. Nintendo regularly drags some of their biggest fans through the dirt with bogus copyright claims and other legal nonsense.
I guess you will have to ask Microsoft, Facebook, NVidia and Intel why they are bothering then.
Yeah its an interesting question, and I'm a little surprised I got down voted here.

I wouldn't expect them to add an additional LLM layer unless hallucinations from the underlying LLM aren't acceptable, and in this case that means it is unacceptable enough to cost them users and money.

Adding a check/audit layer, even if it would work, is expensive both financially and computationally. I'm not sold that it would actually work, but I just don't think they've had enough reason to really give it a solid effort yet either.

Edit: as far as fact checking, I'm not sure why it would be impossible. An LLM wouldn't likely be able to run a check against a pre-trained model of "truth," but that isn't the only option. An LLM should be able to mimic what a human would do, interpret the response and search a live dataset of sources considered believable. Throw a budget of resources at processing the search results and have the LLM decide if the original response isn't backed up, or contradicts the source entirely.
Yeah Sandra Boynton is pretty amazing. Our son loves them.

A lot of people who don't have children or who haven't spent a lot of time with one think "oh yeah we'll just make some subject I'm interested in approachable." And don't even get me started on the books that rich and famous people produce that are absolute garbage for children. I'm reading to my son, Jimmy Fallon. You forgot your audience.
Microsoft, Facebook, NVidia and Intel apparently can.
This all sounds plausible, but personally I find being paired to a new idiot-savant hire who never learns anything from the interaction incredibly exhausting. It can augment and amplify one’s own capabilities, but it’s also continuously frustrating and cumbersome.
I make free videos why tf would I ever hire a lawyer to protect my parodies. It's incredibly stupid considering that I am not a billionaire and that the copyright holders are. I would be throwing my money in the bin. And they know this full-well, which is why the system works in the first place.
As a surgeon who deals in knots all day long, I can tell that I have to manually and systematically keep track of the ends at all times. Any little slip can turn the secure "surgeons knot" into an unsecure "slipknot". Intuition just doesn't seem to work here.
I'm Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn't Still Better Than Streaming Digital
> Elon said the next day after AI he expects to connect everyone on a higher consciousness

Elon is a retard. He's a drug addict comfortable taking Ketamine during work hours, he lies chronically and is lambasted by professionals everywhere for saying blatantly wrong things as though they have even an ounce of truth in them (eg. drones > F-35, $25,000 EV, "bulletproof" Cybertruck window, need I go on?).

If you still listen to Elon or Sam Altman or Joe Rogan or Tim Cook with open ears and an optimistic heart, then you deserve to be as misinformed as you are right now. These are not honest people, they are businessmen with axes to grind and money to make. If your political information comes from people that buy lobbyists, you are basically deliberately spreading propaganda. You are being manipulated by your basic instincts to revere something which doesn't yet exist - eg, marketing.

> I don't think even o3 should go live before solving war in the world

Lmfao. Yeah, and I don't think the jet engine should be invented until humans learn to get along with each other.

If you even think AI is capable of solving all human conflict then I sincerely think you live in a philosophical bubble isolated from the sources of war. Tell O3 to "solve war" and it will draw up secession to China and Russia while desperately trying to get either side to sign "peace treaties" that will definitely work this time, unlike the Minsk agreements.

AI does not have some magic wand that it can wave to solve all violence. It's a wholesome thought, but I challenge you to find any epistemic evidence whatsoever that proves AI even can solve political disagreement, let alone "war" as a whole.

> If they want to keep having an income, these people need to deliver.

Have you ever visited a community that isn't as tech-reliant as you are?

People that don't use the internet or get a monthly salary still survive. In case all of human history is somehow foreign to you, it's important to note that human enlightenment predates TikTok and the smartphone. We'll be just fine.
Smartphones introduced gyroscopes to popular tech (and no, people were imagining them before transistors), Segway had nothing to do with that.
https://archive.is/Gp05K
It seems to me predicting things in general is a pretty good way to bootstrap intelligence. If you are competing for resources, predicting how to avoid danger and catch food is about the most basic way to reinforce good behavior.
It shouldn’t be that shocking, the United States is the only country able to project military power globally. India can’t even provide basic sanitation for all of its citizens.
The only book with a foil I'd not avoid is Where the Wild Things Are.
People do tend to normally behave as stereotypes where American politics is concerned, and the essentially two party dynamic of the American political system encourages that.

I don't know what you're trying to accuse me of, but the near absolute fixation on partisanship and identity politics in the US is well known.
That AI answer is not spam, though. It's literally the topic under discussion.
In the US there are also major restrictions to federal US military operating on US soil. [0]

Thus, any action (or effectors traveling) outside base boundaries would generally be illegal.

Given the mobility of drones and desire to prevent their encroachment on bases in the first place, the appropriately legal unit for this would be non-federalized national guard air defense units, tasked by the state governor to intervene.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
What Python projects do they have outside AI?
Most of my flights (within the USA) are on ERJ-175. I even switched airlines midway through the year and this was still true. I only see Airbus and Boeing for transcontinental flights.
I’m a lawyer and AI has become deeply integrated into my work.
I use LLMs to help me with ffmpeg commands more than I care to admit
> The systems in place already solve generalized problems not directly represented in the training set or algorithm

Tell me a problem that an LLM can solve that is not directly represented in the training set or algorithm. I would argue that 99% of what commercial LLMs gets prompted about are stuff that already existed in the training set. And they still hallucinate half lies about those. When your training data is most the internet, it is hard to find problems that you haven't encountered before
The Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler (FSRS) in 100-Ish Lines of TypeScript
Nice. FYI, I personally would listen more to these if they were also available in podcast form. Do you have a RSS feed?
Actually you just have to set temperature to zero.
I did but I've been feeling that the LLMs end up giving an average solution / something that I don't fully understand / the same solution that just looks slightly different and I think I'll end up getting influenced by its responses instead of thinking by myself or learning from others
And some aren't; it's not a list of "commonly encountered" constants, just a list.
The GC hypothesis is an hypothesis of one of the possible functions of sleeping. Nature never does 1 thing and 1 thing alone.
staring right in my face https://searchthearxiv.com/about

Code is on github https://github.com/augustwester/searchthearxiv
It’s not just a search engine though.

I can’t tell a search engine to summarize text for a technical audience and then another summary for a non technical audience.

I recently came into the middle of a cloud consulting project where a lot of artifacts, transcripts of discovery sessions, requirement docs, etc had already been created.

I asked NotebookLM all of the questions I would have asked a customer at the beginning of a project.

What it couldn’t answer, I then went back and asked the customer.

I was even able to get it to create a project plan with work streams and epics. Yes it wouldn’t have been effective if I didn’t already know project management, AWS and two decades+ of development experience.

Despite what people think, LLMs can also do a pretty good job at coding when well trained on the APIs. Fortunately, ChatGPT is well trained on the AWS CLI, SDKs in various languages and you can ask it to verify the SDK functions on the web.

I’ve been deep into AWS based development since LLMs have been a thing. My opinion may change if I get back into more traditional development
never had any thought on monetizing this at all so maybe offer pro features down the line? idk
I'm used to just putting stuff out there for people to try out. Could be spent on worse things all things considered haha
A noscript tag on the landing page with a link to the repository's readme would be appreciated (or ssr the react). There are a small number of users who don't enable javascript for every domain.
Does nobody on this forum read technical books anymore? I read building git by James Coglan, and it was pretty good.
An example that might be of interest to readers: I gave it two logs, one failing and one successful, and asked it to troubleshoot. It turned out a loosely pinned dependency (Docker image) had updated in the failing one. An error mode I was familiar with and could have solved on my own, but the LLM saved me time. They are reliable at sifting through text.
With the proliferation of nonstandard RGB Bayer Matrices in consumer devices, sub-pixel anything seems dicey until we have an effective device awareness/translation layer.

I'm thinking we might make it to 8K screens before that level of coordination happens.
Ask survey designers how “trivial” changes to questions impact results from humans. It’s a huge thing in the field.
Everything else aside, fabulous riches not guaranteed.
If we wanted to talk to an LLM we would go there and do it, this place if for humans to put in effort and use their brains to think for themselves.
The obvious answer being that corporations want to maximize profit from cheaper labor by extracting the same value at the lowest possible cost? Just because location has historically been the determining factor doesn't mean it has to continue this way though. I don't know why it is such a shocking or foreign concept that people would prefer to be paid according to the value they produce.
$60m Series C 3.5 years ago. My hypothesis is they shut it down when they were unable to turn it into a rocketship.
The largest back ends don’t want you to know what they’re running. It’s a competitive advantage. Name a Fortune 500 and most have Z or Power. Many have both.

It just works. That’s what they care about.

As an example, the back end of most pharmacy companies use a software package that evolved from a product named Catamaran. It’s not on what you’d assume it’s on:

https://www.hireitpeople.com/resume-database/87-sql-develope...
I'm not complaining about the indexing (you can start the indexing by starting spotlight on and off). I'm complaining about having to search for "ghos..." instead of "term...". Because I don't don't like to remember the specific app name. But this complaint is the same for everything; when searching for Excel, I would like "Numbers" to also show up in the results.
When looking for vscode I would like "Visual Studio code" to also show up, but I need to type either code, visual or studio.
Hostility and a few swift kicks are in order when the butt scratchers start saying their stochastic parrot machine is intelligent and a superman.
I can clearly see the logic in what you are saying but it's still a bit baffling.
With respect, can I ask you to please read the thread?
The DMCA has absolutely ruined a decade+ long hobby of mine, which was streaming/content creation. I used to have really fun streams not that long ago that featured a variety of relaxing/cool music set to the backdrop of me messing around on the computer, or in some game. Everyone was fine with this arrangement for a long time. Then, things suddenly changed a few years ago. First your VODs would get yanked and you'd get a warning if you played some extremely popular song, and it was like ok, I understand that. But now it's even spread to in game audio of a game I literally have purchased. That is ridiculous to me. There are games I actually cannot publish playing with full audio settings enabled. That is ridiculous no matter your views on the DMCA, and I'd even go farther and say it's completely ridiculous that I cannot use audio I have purchased or somehow leased on my own content. Why does it have to be this way? Someone can try to convince me this is somehow sane or necessary, but I really doubt it.
Back in the hospital bombing game.
Useless and dead end aren’t synonymous. It’s most certainly a dead end, but it’s also not useless.

There a lot of comments here already conflating these two.

This article is also pretty crap. There’s a decent summary box but other than that it’s all regurgitated half-wisdoms we’ve all already realized: things will change, probably a lot; nobody knows what the end goal is or how far we are from it; the next quantum leap almost certainly depends on a transcendent architecture or new model entirely.

This whole article could’ve been a single paragraph honestly, and a lot of the comments here probably wouldn’t have read that either… just sayin
> we need to get back in the game

Who needs to get back in what game? The US defense industry has been very large and well-funded for generations.
Computer vision models inference directly on mobile
Try Cody. It integrates with your IDE, understands your code base, and lets you pick the LLM.
AI Needs So Much Energy It's Distorting US Power for Homes
I don't think it should really matter how they explain it, legally.
I had no idea spoofing email sender was so easy. Does anyone know of a good way to defend against this? I've always taken it for granted that if the sender was a domain that I trusted that I could trust the email itself.
Prigozhin.

Well it was general aviation (another Embraer Jet, coincidentally) as opposed to commercial, but close enough.

Still the most likely explanation is human error. There have been so many shoot downs of airlines across the world in the recent past that it is not surprising any more.
I would imagine Microsoft is a bit different because of the OS. If you can hack Windows you have access to nearly every institution in the world. Linux and iOS don't have that reach. No need to hack AWS, you hacked the computer that is logging into AWS.
Drafting demand letters, drafting petitions, drafting discovery requests, drafting discovery responses, drafting golden rule letters, summarizing meet and confer calls, drafting motions, responding to motions, drafting depo outlines, summarizing depos, …

If you’re not using ai in your practice, you’re doing a disservice to your clients.
“shutting down right before the tax year ends is downright scummy”

as if a dying business can magically decide to stay open longer and shut down at a more convenient time
“In my mind, all this puts even state-of-the-art current AI systems in a position where professional responsibility dictates the avoidance of them in any serious application.”

And yet here we are with what we all think of as serious and seriously useful applications.

“My first 20 years of research were in formal methods, where mathematics and logic are used to ensure systems operate according to precise formal specifications, or at least to support verification of implemented systems.”

I think recommending avoiding building anything serious in the field until your outdated verification methodology catches up is unreasonably cynical, but also naive because it discards the true nature of our global society and assumes a lab environment where this kind of control is possible.
> they are spending so much time and effort trying

Do they? It reads like a very average PR piece that an average PR person can write.
God I wish there was a decent competitor to YouTube. They get away with so much horseshit because there's just nobody else that can match their service scale and network effects.
I find the wording highly deceptive. The main feature making the internet globally scalable is not that it goes through fibers, but that it uses package routing. Nobody knows how to do this with qubits, so quantum communication doesn't scale at all. Instead, the community started doing these publicity stunts with very limited applicability.
> After reading about o3's performance on ARC-AGI, I strongly suspect people will not be so flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits of these technologies by this time next year.

If I wasn't so slammed with work I have half a mind to go dredge up at least a dozen posts that said the same thing last year, and the year before. Even OpenAI has been moving the goalposts here.
Exponentially? Absolutely not. In the best case it creates something that’s almost useful. Are you working on large actual codebases or talking about some one off toy apps?
Any idea what the definition of "source code" is? I'm wondering if low-code workflows would count.
I would love to try but it doesn’t support Monterey
We just moved to CleerTax. Not sure if they are good yet but pretty responsive.
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
And every advocate of AI assumes that it will necessarily and reasonably swiftly be improved to the level of AGI. Maybe assume neither?
Yeah animated mouse wheel zoom will do it. And as a bonus "Photos" takes a lot longer to load. And what's this? "Edit an image using AI". Yeah, the pop ups.

Unfortunately you have to patch in photo viewer in order to use it out of box.
Where should I look first if I only get around 160 fps, while WezTerm gets 400+ fps?
Humans are not flawed? Are robotaxi's not autonomous driving? (Could an LLM have written this post?)
You may have enough expertise in your field that when you have a question, you know where to start looking. Juniors and students encounter dozens of problems and question per hour that fall into the unknown unknown category
They can easily stop it.

Question is, will there be enough incentive for them to do so.
I think the most interesting bit from the Visa podcast was that in the past 5(ish?) years, their revenue has massively increased... From a "things are nice the way they've always been", this felt like a indication that change was afoot there, too, and has me wary of Visa maybe causing greater harm in the near future.
Apparently they can’t stop hallucinating.
It can't have NSFW conversations
You can get deterministic output with even with a high temp.

Whatever "random" seed was used can be reused.
> You're also making the assumption here that it was a modern Russian system

People do like to provide their very important opinion completely oblivious what Grozny is farther away from eg Crimea than Kiev.
By the way, Wikipedia did change the world. Some of the most important inventions are the ones we don’t notice.
Does shutting down mean bankruptcy? My businesses will have real damages from this - both the money that has been paid to bench all year for now no output of annual books/a financial summary as well as the cost of now having to pay to redo my 2024 books.
Yeah, 36 years of Unicode and it's still not ‘≠’.
The seasoned advice from experts is that AGI could very easily END humanity as a whole. But they need to pay their mortgage right now, and uhh... if we don't do it our competitors will.

We're basically betting our species' future on these guys failing, because for a short period of time there's a massive amount of shareholder value to be made.
Looks nice, but I'm lost. What do the colors represent? What do the axes #s represent?
I've signed many contracts with this clause. I've always interpreted it as "if you post what you did on HN and everyone responds saying you clearly shouldn't have done that", then it isn't best practice.
Their title is specific in saying "internet cables", not the internet. It seems fair to me that this is one step on the journey, that figuring out going through cables comes before figuring out routing between cables.

It's a press release for a specific research paper, not a product release marketed to consumers.

(Though it's possible the researchers themselves agree with you & iandanforth more than with me & ko27, as the title of the actual research paper itself doesn't use this wording; it's "Quantum teleportation coexisting with classical communications in optical fiber".)
I mean, then YouTube is substantially cutting into their own revenue too, but even that would be better than just handing over all the revenue to an unverified 3rd party that clicked a button.
The conclusion of the article admits that in areas where stochastic outputs are expected these AI models will continue to be useful.

It’s in area where we demand correctness and determinism that they will not be suitable.

I think the thrust of this article is hard to see unless you have some experience with formal methods and verification. Or else accept the authors’ explanations as truth.
I love the design so much.
Believe me you don't want free smartphone from the government. I'm astonished how easily people accepted to load everything onto their private smartphones. This happened so fast, within one decade.
Refer to current total fertility rates [1]. Note that ~40% of annual pregnancies in the US and internationally are unintended [2] (the data does not indicate what percentage of those are unwanted, leaving us to infer from other data sources around parental preference [3]). If we drive down those unintended pregnancies through robust access to contraceptives and reproductive healthcare, I presume the drop in fertility rate ("we’d have a massive drop in fertility") we're already seeing [4] [5] would only accelerate.

> The facts of parenthood are not very attractive.

Yes, exactly, the burden is to explain this to people who don't know so they can make an informed choice.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37300184 (citations)

[3] https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

[4] https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...

[5] https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-...
Who is the most powerful person on the planet at the moment?
Cool. Looking forward to going through it.

>Have CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS postgis; installed.

Why is postgis a requirement for an accounting package?
For a man to succeed, he should maintain good habits to fulfill a purpose.

The habits and the purpose are doomed to fail if not guided by a meaning.

The meaning the man finds or invents for his life.